10 TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT. 



of masts, sails, hull, and machinery at the Royal 

 Dockyards, the Vega left Carlscroiia on the 22d of 

 June 1878. 



The ship's company was made up of the following 

 officers, commissioned and non-commissioned, and 

 men on leave of absence from the Royal !Navy : 

 Lieutenant Palander, commander ; Lieutenant E. 

 Brusewitz ; F. A. Pettersson, engineer ; R. Nilsson, 

 sailing-master ; three firemen, of whom one acted as 

 second engineer ; four able seamen and four ordinary 

 seamen ; seven boatmen ; one carpenter. 



Besides the crew, the Vega was accompanied from 

 Carlscrona by Lieutenants A. Hovgaard and G. Bove, 

 belonging respectively to the Danish and Italian 

 navy the former the physiographer of the expe- 

 dition, the latter its hydrographer. Both of these 

 officers had been residing at Carlscrona to be pre- 

 sent at the equipment of the ship. From Carls- 

 crona we went to Copenhagen, from whence al- 

 most all the supplies estimated for thirty men for 

 twenty-four months were taken in. 



In provisioning the ship special attention was paid 

 to the regimen which must be followed during an 

 Arctic voyage; consequently the supplies consisted 

 chiefly of preserves. In the choice of provisions, 

 care was taken to obtain everything of the best 

 quality. Among other articles of supply taken to 

 avert that pest of the Arctic regions, scurvy, may 

 be mentioned lime-juice, pickled cabbage, concen- 



